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NLIHC releases
Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing (2017)
Dear colleagues:

Last week, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released the 2017 edition of its annual report entitled Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing. Out of Reach reports on the housing wage - the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest rental home without spending more than 30% of his or her income on housing costs - for every state, county, and metropolitan area in the country. The report indicates that housing costs are “out of reach” both for the average renter and for millions of low-wage workers, seniors and people with disabilities living on fixed incomes, and other low-income households.

Highlights from the report include:
  • On average a full-time worker in the U.S. must earn $21.21 per hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment and $17.14 to afford a one-bedroom apartment; and yet, the average hourly wage of renters in the U.S. is $16.38, $4.83 lower than the two-bedroom housing wage and nearly $1 lower than for the one-bedroom housing wage.
  • A worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would need to work 117 hours per week for 52 weeks of the year (or nearly 3 full-time jobs) to afford a modest two-bedroom rental home and 94.5 hours per week (2.4 full time jobs) to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment.
  • The five states with the highest housing wages are:
    • Hawaii, with a two-bedroom housing wage of $35.20
    • District of Columbia, with a two-bedroom housing wage of $33.58
    • California, with a two -bedroom housing wage of $30.92
    • Maryland, with a two-bedroom housing wage of $28.27
    • New York, with a two-bedroom housing wage of $28.08
Visit http://nlihc.org/oor/ to access the report and view housing data for your area.

Best,

Christina Dukes, Federal Liaison
National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE)
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